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      Symrise

      Engaged Employer

      Symrise reviews

      3.6

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (400 total reviews)
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      Dr Heinz-Jürgen Bertram

      75% approve of CEO

      55% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Symrise has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symrise employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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      400 reviews
      4.0
      Nov 26, 2015

      Sales Director

      Sales director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Loved Symrise and the people. Employed from 04-'12. Moved from Project management, Customer Service Director to Sales Director. Training was excellent and entrepreneurial style allowing control over profitability. Provided me opportunities to learn and grow professionally.

      Cons

      Reorganizing meant downsizing and saw it 5 times. Rapid, changing reorganization. I had 15 bosses and 8 job changes in 8 years. Saw many people laid off again and again then it was my turn after the 5th reorganization. It's just business - I suppose. Interestingly, my lay off comprised of women in their late 40s, and 50s.

      3.0
      Nov 20, 2015

      Politics

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good opportunity for growth and development

      Cons

      Too much politics; controlled by headquarters

      1.0
      Nov 18, 2015

      Horribly Mismanaged

      Flavor division
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Wide flex time options, unlimited sick days, good people at the lower level of the org chart. Puts money into facility to keep things up to date although the process is slow.

      Cons

      Management is a quagmire. The upper echelon in Germany is completely out of sync with American business and the US management team. Upper and middle management are a wasteland of the worst kind of leaders imaginable. You'll be hard pressed to find a worker who doesn't have their resume out, looking to jump. You can't blame them as firings and mass layoffs are frequent - they are currently on a 3 year cycle for cuts. Because of this, turnover is very high. HR at Symrise is full of genuinely terrible people - unapproachable and disingenuous. Because of all this, the culture is miserable and unhappy.

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